Rick Lazio: “Mr. Chairman, we are again going around and around. We are talking about ensuring that working people have the incentive…”

“Mr. Chairman, we are again going around and around. We are talking about ensuring that working people have the incentive to go to work. We are trying to ensure that the Brooke amendment, which is a tax on work, which will result, even the Frank amendment will result, on more taxes on working people, on higher rents, kills jobs, hurts working poor, hurts working people, hurts mixed income, will be defeated. What we are saying is that we need to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, and that is not inconsistent. We are saying we need to protect the seniors, we need to protect the disabled, we need to protect the poorest of the poor, and all those people are protected in our manager's amendment and in our bill. We are trying to move beyond that. The gentleman has objected to a unanimous-consent request so that we can apply this to seniors in public housing, but we are going to apply this prospectively in the future to seniors using section 8 voucher-based program.”